ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,709, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Centrifugal compressor" was invented by Tetsuo Amano (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal compressor includes a rotor shaft including an impeller and a casing including a suction port and a discharge port. The casing includes a diaphragm that covers the rotor shaft, an outer casing that covers the diaphragm, a discharge scroll that guides a working fluid discharged from the impeller to the discharge port, and a flow path forming member including a scroll outer circumferential surface that is located on an ...